The problem is the epistemolgy of the source, or the philosophical one-liner, "How do we know what we know", I don't care about accuracy of the data as much as I care about the confidence of the accuarcy of the data, and availablility of original source of the data, so I have a reasonable chance of forming my own informed opinions about the data. Anyone who expects a popular-level encyclopedia to be authoratative is going to be miss lead or disapointed; but frequently they are a good source of information to begin a search in more specialized areas for more authorative sources.
I've always concidered the hallmark of good SciFi to be the quality of the inter-personal actions of the characters, rather than the science or lack of it. Usualy what I consider good SciFi has the science sparse and in the background rather than dominating the show.
I'm really enjoying BSG, but you have to actively watch it lots of plot twists, flashbacks, fore-shaddowing, and some of the charecters have multiple instances of themselves; very easy to get lost in it.
It probably will continue to be a problem until someone important catches on that all they need to do is come up with a downloadable program package that contains some forms of advertising that people will view.
I doubt it, when I go into the video store and see television shows packaged as seasons, on sale for $50-60.00, and think that they represent little post-production work, it's hard to imagine that they'll give up this market's profit potential.
dry-ice is easily dense enough to sink, the water ice is just thermal insulation. While this would work it would of course be economicaly impossible, it was meant more in sarcasic mode, than something to actualy do. Assuming that CO2 is released enough to actualy cause problems globaly, there is technology that will scrub CO2 from concentrated sources, like breweries and power plants, reasulting in commercialy pure CO2. Subsituting this recovered CO2 for comercial use, rather than using CO2 specificaly generated for comercial use might make a slight dent in CO2 emmissions. Getting atmospheric CO2 down from it's present 330 ppm to let's say 150 ppm is probably beyond human resources in a resonable amount of time. The biggest problem is getting the CO2 concentrated enough to actualy do something with, biological concentration should be much more feasable than technical concentration.
It's not certain that CO2 actualy is contributing much to global warming anyways, I saw some models based on CIA sponcored software that sugessted that the additional effects on infrared adsorbance due to atmosphere CO2 declines rapidly after CO2 levels reach the 100 ppm point. The CIA wanted this software to determine what could and couldn't be seen through the atmosphere due to atmospheric conditions by their spy-satelites in the IR bands. Due to this it seems to me that the results would be better tested and not leaning toward a position, rather than models used be scientists that need alarming results to generate more grant proposals.
Agribusiness might be willing to part with that "waste" for the right price
CWT and ConAgra formed a joint venture that built a $30 million plant in Carthage, Mo.
That sounds like Agribusiness and CWT are partners to me.
Today's trash (with oil at $40-$50 a barrel, plentiful natural gas in the market and cheap electricity as a result) is tomorrow's treasure (with oil at $80 - $100 a barrel, and electricity prices thru the roof as the gas runs out).
I'll be glad when the Canadian trash trucks aren't lined up for 5 Miles down the 402, and I-94 waiting to bring trash into Michigan land-fills and to return to Toronto.
I doubt we'll ever see coal to oil conversion become commercially viable, simply because the coal is better used as a fuel in coal fired electrical plants.
But the coal industry may become thermal depolymerization's biggest fossil-fuel beneficiary. "We can clean up coal dramatically," says Appel. So far, experiments show the process can extract sulfur, mercury, naphtha, and olefins--all salable commodities--from coal, making it bum hotter and cleaner. Pretreating with thermal depolymerization also makes coal more friable, so less energy is needed to crush it before combustion in electricity-generating plants. -- B.L.
To be honest I don't see any real downside to the process, other than the economies being slightly less than advantagious.
100 pounds of MUNICIPAL LIQUID WASTE: 26 pounds oil, 9 pounds gas, 8 pounds carbon and mineral solids, 57 pounds water.
basicly a waste water treatment plant takes in sewage: 1. skims off the floaties, and settlements which are either a. bacterialy digested or burnt( primary treatment) 2. treated with floculents to settle out addition suspended solids which are also given to primary treatment 3. the remaining liquid wastes are areobicaly digested in the large spray ponds, the discharged
localy, in the USA, I've noticed that the stores have a tendency to used different units of measure for differnt sizes, if everything was in dollars/Kg or cents/gm it would be easy, but one size might be cents/oz, another larger can of the same product, same maker might be cents/pound.
it's even worse for nutritional information, often things are per serving, and a 50 cent candy bar might be 150 calories per serving but one bar might be 3 servings and an other might be two.
The bottom line is even with unit pricing information, would need to do the maths to keep the units of measure the same. Soon in the UK you'll see brand A at pounds per gm, and brand B at Euro's per gram!
Maybe it means that idea are not copywritable, software could be written and copyrighted that, in this example talks to the printer; that software would of course be copyrighted, but that copyright would not extend to any program that does the same.
fair use doctrine preserves public access to the ideas and functional elements embedded in copyrighted computer software programs.
this seems to me to mean that 1. use trade secrets if you want to keep an idea or method secret. 2. use copyright if you don't care if the idea or method is secret, but want to protect your particular implimentation of the secret protected. 3. use a patent, if you don't care if the idea or method is public as long as nobody else can use it for 17 years.
Of course if your interest is more than hypothetical, consult your legal advisors.
20,000 tons heavier than the 747 probably meant 20,000 tons, heavier than the 747rather than the implied weight of a 747 + 20,000 tons. So what is more damning, that the Toranto Star 1 botched the math, 2 don't know the differences between a short ton, a metric ton or a long ton, or 3 that they butchered the English?
bottle them and send them to mars. That's a rather expensive solution a bit cheaper would be to 1. make torpedoes out of water ice, 2. pour in the liquid CO2 3. vent the torpedoe to freeze the CO2 4. cap the torpedoe with water 5. drop the torpedoes into the ocean over a deep trench
The torpedoes would of course disolve/melt and the CO2 would stay liquid in the high preasure and cold sea bed and flow into the ocean bottom sediments and react with the minerals there. This would be much less expensive than lifting the CO2 out of the Earth's gravity well, then again out of the sun's well.
Driving from Graffenwhor to Mieseau Germany, 8 Hrs. Driving from Copper Harbor Mi to Detroit MI, 13 Hrs. Now that Germany is re-unified, it's not too hard to imagine that's quicker to drive from Sweden to Spain, quicker than it is to drive between two carefully selected points in Germany.
It took the US about 40 years to install the present petrolium pipeline infrastucture, and converting to hydrogen distribution should take the same. Check back when Germany, France, Britain and Sweden are done; I think the US will be in a comparable state of completion by then.
The 'egg' in this whole thing is demand. As I understand it Michigan doesn't apply road-fuel taxes to alternative fuels; which means when I fuel-up with Gasohol (90% gasoline, 10% ethanol), the ethanol portion of the road taxes, aren't colllected. Normaly the pump price for gasoline and gasohol is the same, or couple cents less which generates additional profits for the Gas staion company. There were problems with fuel stability years ago, which retains a stigma to gasohol with the general public, but the gas stations that sell gasohol actualy don't advertise the fact, and most people don't realize what they are buying.
Placeing a modest carbon tax on fossile motor fuels would go a long ways toward generating demand. Normaly I'm against Gov involvement in anything, but I could live with it.
not on a brain function level, reading, writing, speaking and listening all involve different brain areas. It's often quite frustrating to stroke patients who may lose the ability in one area and not others, imagine the frustration of knowing a word, being able to read it, to write it, able to spell it out loud, and to be able to make the sound in your mind, but not to be able to say it while knowing you can't.
I've been in close proximity to 6 tornadoes, 5 I've seen and the one I didn't was the real ass kicker; only had three steps warning on that one. I'm truely alive due to dumb luck.
Canada is one of the largest CO2 sinks in the world Being a carbon sink doesn't count, the treaty is about emissions as I understand it. I think you comment about a pollution tax is a good idea, especial if you tack on an additional tax for slave or near-slave labor.
Additionaly if someones thinks your doing something your not doing, you wonder what put the idea in their head in the first place, the idea that they are doing it to you usually pops up first in mine.
Sometimes its required to record a message, SEC I believe requires a record of all communications with a stockbroker and client for example. I'm sure that is way Gaim allows a convesation to be logged.
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yeah but intel and/or microsoft can give them a kick back on advertising cost if they flash the logo's, which amounts t6o the same thing.
you'd be amazed at how many people think a monitor is the computer.
The problem is the epistemolgy of the source, or the philosophical one-liner, "How do we know what we know", I don't care about accuracy of the data as much as I care about the confidence of the accuarcy of the data, and availablility of original source of the data, so I have a reasonable chance of forming my own informed opinions about the data. Anyone who expects a popular-level encyclopedia to be authoratative is going to be miss lead or disapointed; but frequently they are a good source of information to begin a search in more specialized areas for more authorative sources.
The intersting part about ferrite core memory is that they don't change state when power-fails or even a random alpha particle strike.
I've always concidered the hallmark of good SciFi to be the quality of the inter-personal actions of the characters, rather than the science or lack of it. Usualy what I consider good SciFi has the science sparse and in the background rather than dominating the show.
I'm really enjoying BSG, but you have to actively watch it lots of plot twists, flashbacks, fore-shaddowing, and some of the charecters have multiple instances of themselves; very easy to get lost in it.
It probably will continue to be a problem until someone important catches on that all they need to do is come up with a downloadable program package that contains some forms of advertising that people will view.
I doubt it, when I go into the video store and see television shows packaged as seasons, on sale for $50-60.00, and think that they represent little post-production work, it's hard to imagine that they'll give up this market's profit potential.
dry-ice is easily dense enough to sink, the water ice is just thermal insulation. While this would work it would of course be economicaly impossible, it was meant more in sarcasic mode, than something to actualy do.
Assuming that CO2 is released enough to actualy cause problems globaly, there is technology that will scrub CO2 from concentrated sources, like breweries and power plants, reasulting in commercialy pure CO2. Subsituting this recovered CO2 for comercial use, rather than using CO2 specificaly generated for comercial use might make a slight dent in CO2 emmissions. Getting atmospheric CO2 down from it's present 330 ppm to let's say 150 ppm is probably beyond human resources in a resonable amount of time. The biggest problem is getting the CO2 concentrated enough to actualy do something with, biological concentration should be much more feasable than technical concentration.
It's not certain that CO2 actualy is contributing much to global warming anyways, I saw some models based on CIA sponcored software that sugessted that the additional effects on infrared adsorbance due to atmosphere CO2 declines rapidly after CO2 levels reach the 100 ppm point. The CIA wanted this software to determine what could and couldn't be seen through the atmosphere due to atmospheric conditions by their spy-satelites in the IR bands. Due to this it seems to me that the results would be better tested and not leaning toward a position, rather than models used be scientists that need alarming results to generate more grant proposals.
the difference between a lawyer and a vampire is
vampires quit sucking your blood when you're dead!
That sounds like Agribusiness and CWT are partners to me.
Today's trash (with oil at $40-$50 a barrel, plentiful natural gas in the market and cheap electricity as a result) is tomorrow's treasure (with oil at $80 - $100 a barrel, and electricity prices thru the roof as the gas runs out).
I'll be glad when the Canadian trash trucks aren't lined up for 5 Miles down the 402, and I-94 waiting to bring trash into Michigan land-fills and to return to Toronto.
I doubt we'll ever see coal to oil conversion become commercially viable, simply because the coal is better used as a fuel in coal fired electrical plants.
To be honest I don't see any real downside to the process, other than the economies being slightly less than advantagious.
100 pounds of MUNICIPAL LIQUID WASTE: 26 pounds oil, 9 pounds gas, 8 pounds carbon and mineral solids, 57 pounds water.
basicly a waste water treatment plant takes in sewage:
1. skims off the floaties, and settlements which are either a. bacterialy digested or burnt( primary treatment)
2. treated with floculents to settle out addition suspended solids which are also given to primary treatment
3. the remaining liquid wastes are areobicaly digested in the large spray ponds, the discharged
localy, in the USA, I've noticed that the stores have a tendency to used different units of measure for differnt sizes, if everything was in dollars/Kg or cents/gm it would be easy, but one size might be cents/oz, another larger can of the same product, same maker might be cents/pound.
it's even worse for nutritional information, often things are per serving, and a 50 cent candy bar might be 150 calories per serving but one bar might be 3 servings and an other might be two.
The bottom line is even with unit pricing information, would need to do the maths to keep the units of measure the same. Soon in the UK you'll see brand A at pounds per gm, and brand B at Euro's per gram!
this seems to me to mean that
1. use trade secrets if you want to keep an idea or method secret.
2. use copyright if you don't care if the idea or method is secret, but want to protect your particular implimentation of the secret protected.
3. use a patent, if you don't care if the idea or method is public as long as nobody else can use it for 17 years.
Of course if your interest is more than hypothetical, consult your legal advisors.
Damn, 8.56 quatrillion US Gallons, is a whole shit-pile of ice they may or may not have there!
20,000 tons heavier than the 747 probably meant 20,000 tons, heavier than the 747 rather than the implied weight of a 747 + 20,000 tons . So what is more damning, that the Toranto Star 1 botched the math, 2 don't know the differences between a short ton, a metric ton or a long ton, or 3 that they butchered the English?
bottle them and send them to mars.
That's a rather expensive solution a bit cheaper would be to
1. make torpedoes out of water ice,
2. pour in the liquid CO2
3. vent the torpedoe to freeze the CO2
4. cap the torpedoe with water
5. drop the torpedoes into the ocean over a deep trench
The torpedoes would of course disolve/melt and the CO2 would stay liquid in the high preasure and cold sea bed and flow into the ocean bottom sediments and react with the minerals there.
This would be much less expensive than lifting the CO2 out of the Earth's gravity well, then again out of the sun's well.
Driving from Graffenwhor to Mieseau Germany, 8 Hrs.
Driving from Copper Harbor Mi to Detroit MI, 13 Hrs.
Now that Germany is re-unified, it's not too hard to imagine that's quicker to drive from Sweden to Spain, quicker than it is to drive between two carefully selected points in Germany.
It took the US about 40 years to install the present petrolium pipeline infrastucture, and converting to hydrogen distribution should take the same. Check back when Germany, France, Britain and Sweden are done; I think the US will be in a comparable state of completion by then.
The 'egg' in this whole thing is demand.
As I understand it Michigan doesn't apply road-fuel taxes to alternative fuels; which means when I fuel-up with Gasohol (90% gasoline, 10% ethanol), the ethanol portion of the road taxes, aren't colllected. Normaly the pump price for gasoline and gasohol is the same, or couple cents less which generates additional profits for the Gas staion company. There were problems with fuel stability years ago, which retains a stigma to gasohol with the general public, but the gas stations that sell gasohol actualy don't advertise the fact, and most people don't realize what they are buying.
Placeing a modest carbon tax on fossile motor fuels would go a long ways toward generating demand. Normaly I'm against Gov involvement in anything, but I could live with it.
not on a brain function level, reading, writing, speaking and listening all involve different brain areas. It's often quite frustrating to stroke patients who may lose the ability in one area and not others, imagine the frustration of knowing a word, being able to read it, to write it, able to spell it out loud, and to be able to make the sound in your mind, but not to be able to say it while knowing you can't.
I've been in close proximity to 6 tornadoes, 5 I've seen and the one I didn't was the real ass kicker; only had three steps warning on that one. I'm truely alive due to dumb luck.
Would be interesting if editors got modded too, imagine an editor having such poor karma they couldn't accept an article!
Canada is one of the largest CO2 sinks in the world
Being a carbon sink doesn't count, the treaty is about emissions as I understand it. I think you comment about a pollution tax is a good idea, especial if you tack on an additional tax for slave or near-slave labor.
Additionaly if someones thinks your doing something your not doing, you wonder what put the idea in their head in the first place, the idea that they are doing it to you usually pops up first in mine.
Sometimes its required to record a message, SEC I believe requires a record of all communications with a stockbroker and client for example. I'm sure that is way Gaim allows a convesation to be logged.
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2. check md5sum or signature
3. burn to CD
4. load CD into server
5. install on to system
6. reboot if windoze if necessary
7. never expose any other ports to internet!